I visited Japan in November 2011 for the exclusive purpose of urban exploration on Hashima Island. The island, completely abandoned since 1974, sits in the southwest coast of Japan in the East China Sea. Only a few people have been able to access the island for the purposes of urban exploration photography. We were fortunate to be the only people to ever get 8 hours of uninterrupted access to the island.
“Hashima Island, commonly called Gunkanjima or Gunkanshima (軍艦島; meaning Battleship Island), is one among 505 uninhabited islands in the Nagasaki Prefecture about 15 kilometers from Nagasaki itself.
The island was populated from 1887 to 1974 as a coal mining facility. The island’s most notable features are the abandoned concrete buildings and the sea wall surrounding it.” ~wikipedia
There are twice daily trips from Nagasaki to Hashima, though the tours don’t stray far from the jetty.
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Unfinished cooling tower at Satsop Nuclear plant in Washington state.
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Giant driftwood on the beach at La Push, Washington (2010)
this made me feel really uneasy, the ocean is terrifying.
its like when cats bring home a dead bird and drop it at your feet except the ocean is like I HAVE BROUGHT YOU THIS ENORMOUS TREE FROM THE DEPTHS OF HELL ENJOY
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The Best Photos of 2012
A man walks inside of the crumbling oval skeleton of the House of the Bulgarian Communist Party on mount Buzludzha in central Bulgaria on March 14, 2012.
[Image: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images]
We’re not the only ones who think this was pulled straight out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, right?](http://24.media.tumblr.com/e505c7a9b6c8158cdad1f60410bf605b/tumblr_meojy6ekWn1qcokc4o1_1280.jpg)
A man walks inside of the crumbling oval skeleton of the House of the Bulgarian Communist Party on mount Buzludzha in central Bulgaria on March 14, 2012.
[Image: Dimitar Dilkoff/AFP/Getty Images]
We’re not the only ones who think this was pulled straight out of Close Encounters of the Third Kind, right?
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Shipwreck.
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In April, a 76-foot Brazilian yacht named Mar Sem Fin (Endless Sea) sank off the coast of Antarctica, likely due to ice compression and strong winds.
Four crew members were rescued from the yacht, which is owned by Brazilian journalist João Lara Mesquita, who was in the region producing a documentary, according to MercoPress.
